Reset’s Weekly News Roundup For Oct. 25, 2019

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Reset’s Weekly News Roundup For Oct. 25, 2019

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Oct 25, 2019

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Heather Cherone of the Daily Line, John Byrne of the Chicago Tribune, and WBEZ’s Claudia Morell talk about the mayor’s budget address, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and much more on our Friday News Roundup.

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Oct 25, 2019

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WBEZ's daily talk show brings listeners the news and conversations that matter most to their day-to-day lives.

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Markets In Tizzy Over Inverted Yield Curve, Chicago’s Safe House: Over the last week, news reports and business channels have been throwing around the term Inverted Yield Curve. We’ll find out what it means, and what it has to do with a possible future recession or economic downturn. Then we’ll talk to the folks who ru by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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New Illinois Law Aims To Even Playing Field For Job Applicants: Pritzker signed a bill that prohibits potential employers from asking applicants about their past salaries. Revealing past salaries often perpetuates the fact that women and minorities are paid less for the same work than white men. Plus the University o by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Planned Parenthood and Title X, A Growing Peace Campus In Englewood: The Trump administration’s decision to withhold funds from health providers that talk about abortions has led Planned Parenthood to leave the federal program Title X and go without the millions in funds that comes with it. We talk about what that means f by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Chicago’s Billion Dollar Budget Hole: Friday News Roundup For Aug. 23, 2019: Mayor Llightfoot and the billion dollar budget hole. Why national Democrats need to stop in Chicago. A Tea Party firebrand looks to run against Trump. And rampant bullying and sexual harassment in the statehouse outlined in a new report. Those stories an by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Future Chicago Casino Profits And A New Elder Abuse Task Force: A new survey says that Chicago and Illinois will do quite well once a successful casino opens in the city. But it also says that the profits for the casino’s actual owner will be so low, we may see a situation where no one wants to build one in the first by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Lightfoot’s State Of The City: Friday News Roundup For August 30, 2019: Mayor Lightfoot had good news and bad news when she delivered her state-of-the-city speech last night. The good was the number of reforms and cost-saving measures she implemented in her first 100 days. The bad news is, those reforms may not be enough to by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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County Dems Make 2020 Picks, Social Media And The Next Election: It’s not quite the old smoke-filled back room of yore, but Cook County Democrats met late last week to choose who they’ll be supporting in the 2020 elections. WBEZ county reporter Kristen Schorch explains who got the nod, and how the county party’s backi by Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons
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Reset’s Weekly News Roundup For Oct. 25, 2019

Reset’s Weekly News Roundup For Oct. 25, 2019

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